The traumatic mirror: A reading of the patterns of violence in the Iraqi novel (Lalish girls as a model)

Abstract

Abstract

This research focuses on analyzing the narrative discourse and the vocabulary produced by culture systems that have become present in the literary discourse in general and the narrative discourse in particular, in the novel, and that amazing, enchanting, exotic - mysterious - expanding creativity, with its psychological lining of our societies that is re-read, discovered and sometimes exposed Undressing with the aim of revealing its implications, the novelist Ward Badr Al-Salam went through his novel experience and exposed the brutal practices of ISIS represented by the new political Islam and to complete his novel series (The Virgin of Sinjar) and (The Wonders of Baghdad). And tragic fates, as the narrative construction is not based on a particular personality as much as it is based on the event represented by the place. The novel exposes political Islam represented by ISIS terrorism and ISIS power in all its names and reveals the journey of searching for the missing daughter (Nashtman), but the truth is that the search was for a lost homeland that was challenged by greed, politicians and a sect of its sects That suffered the falsehood of power and the ferocity of an enemy that does not know the meaning of humanity.

Keywords:  Violence, Harmony, Gender, Cultural Space, Mirror